In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sep 1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec init > >Isn't it true that init should only be started at boot time and when >changing runlevels? Or have I misunderstood? What could bring about an >attempt to restart it when the system is up and running? I've >certainly not seen an entry like this in the log files before.
Usually a libc6 upgrade will do this ('init u') so that init runs with the new libraries as well. Otherwise init would keep open the old libs during a reboot, causing a filesystem inconsistency. >There was one other worrisome entry, this one in kern.log: >Sep 2 09:48:12 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for >kswapd... Aka "out of memory" >I'd be grateful for any advice or information. My normal mail-server >is down for the weekend. If you could copy any replies to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I'd be even more grateful. Sorry, reading this in a local gatewayed newsgroup Mike.